Thierry Wolton is a journalist and essayist. Among his many remarkable works, let us point out
A World History of Communism
published in three volumes by Grasset:
Les Bourreaux
(2015),
Les Victimes
(2016),
Les Complices
(2017), crowned with the
Today
2018 prize.
recounts the consequences of the application of this ideology in the 20th century and what remains of it today in the world.
LE FIGARO.- Russia against Ukraine, Armenia against Azerbaijan, Tajikistan against Kyrgyzstan: how to explain the inflammability of the republics of the former USSR in recent months?
Thierry WOLTON.-
At the time of the USSR, all these countries no longer had a national identity since they belonged to the great socialist community.
Their leaders, all Communists, owed obedience to Moscow.
“
The right of peoples to self-determination
”, proclaimed by Lenin after October 1917, never saw the light of day.
In fact, Bolshevik Russia, which was to become the Union of Socialist Republics...
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